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BULLETIN   OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  GEORGIA 
ISSUED  MONTHLY  BY  THE  UNIVERSITY 


Vol.  IX. 


JANUARY,  1909. 


No.  5  A. 


The  Visit  of 

William  Howard  Taft 


to 


The  University  of  Georgia 

January  16th,  1909 


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August  30,  1905,  under  A<a  of  Congress  of  July  16,  1904. 


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The  Visit  of  Mr.  Taft: 

During.  Mr.  Taft's  sojourn  in  Augusta 
for  a  rest  after  the  arduous  campaign  preced- 
ing his  election  to  the  Presidency  of  the 
United  States,  Dean  Charles  M.  Snelling,  Act- 
ing Chancellor  during  the  illness  of  Chancellor 
Barrow,  expressed  a  desire  to  have  him  visit 
the  University.  Through  Judge  E.  H.  Calla- 
way, of  Augusta,  an  appointment  was  made 
and  a  committee,  composed  of  Dean  Snelling, 
Dr.  A.  M.  Soule,  and  Professor  W.  H.  Bocock 
from  the  faculty,  Messrs.  A.  L.  Hull  and 
Hamilton  McWhorter  from  the  Trustees, 
Mayor  W.  R  Dorsey  and  Mr.  H.  J.  Rowe  from 
the  City  Council,  and  Hon.  William  M.  How- 
ard, member  of  Congress  and  an  Alumnus  of 
the  University,  called  on  Mr.  Taft  in  the 
afternoon  of  January  second. 

Mr.  Howard  had  accompanied  Mr.  Taft 
to  the  Philippines  in  1906  and  the  most  cor- 
dial relations  exist  between  them.  It  was 
fitting,  therefore,  that  through  him  the  invi- 
tation of  the  University  was  extended. 

Mr.  Taft  had  declined  practically  all  in- 
vitations from  the  numerous  cities  and  organi- 
zations that  desired  to  entertain  him.  It  was 
only  after  the  committee  of  the  University 
had  convinced  him  of  the  position  of  influence 
held  by  this,  the  oldest  of  American  State 
Universities,  that  the  acceptance  of  the  invi- 
tation was  secured. 


An  honorary  escort  composed  of  Judge 
Hamilton  McWhorter,  Hon.  Peter  Meldrim 
and  Col.  Nat  Harris  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
Dr.  H.  C.  White  and  Prof.  W.  H.  Bocock  of 
the  faculty,  Messrs.  Prince  Hodgson  and 
Harry  Hodgson  met  Mr.  Taft  in  Atlanta  and 
came  with  him  to  Athens. 

Upon  the  arrival  of  the  distinguished  visi- 
tor on  the  afternoon  of  January  sixteenth,  he 
was  met  by  a  committee  of  the  Faculty  and 
escorted  to  his  carriage  by  Acting  Chancellor 
Snelling,  ex-Governor  Henry  D.  McDan- 
iel  and  Mr.  A.  L.  Hull  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees. 

The  University  Battalion  of  Cadets  formed 
an  honorary  escort  from  the  train  to  the 
Chapel,  where  a  large  audience  of  students, 
the  families  of  the  faculty,  Alumni  of  the 
University  and  citizens  were  gathered  to  see 
and  hear  the  President-elect. 

The  Chapel  was  decorated  in  Tale  colors  in 
honor  of  Mr.  Taft's  Alma  Mater.  The  stage 
was  occupied  by  the  University  Faculty 
in  their  official  robes  and  by  the  distinguished 
guests  of  the  occasion.  Hon.  Henry  D.  Mc- 
Daniel,  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
presided. 

Dean  Snelling,  in  the  absence  of  Chancellor 
Barrow,  welcomed  the  President-elect  to  the 
University.  Hon.  Hamilton  McWhorter  made 
the  speech  of  introduction,  after  which  Mr. 
Taft  addressed  the  student  body.  The  genial 
manner  and  unaffected  style  of  the  distin- 
guished speaker  went  at  once  to  the  hearts  of 


his  audience  and  he  was  greeted  with  cordial 
and  generous  applause. 

The  addresses  referred  to  are  given  in  full 
below.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  exercises  in 
the  Chapel,  Mr.  Taft  was  taken  to  the  State 
Normal  School,  where  he  spoke  for  a  few  min- 
utes to  the  students  of  that  institution. 

Later  in  the  afternoon  a  beautiful  reception 
in  honor  of  Mr.  Taft  was  given  by  Mrs.  M. 
W.  Welch  in  the  name  of  the  University,  after 
which  the  President-elect  was  escorted  to  his 
car  and  accompanied  back  to  Atlanta  by  an 
honorary  escort  composed  of  Judge  Hamilton 
McWhorter,  Hon.  Peter  Meldrim,  Col.  K  E. 
Harris,  Prof.  John  Morris,  Dr.  J.  T.  McPher- 
son,  Prof.  W.  D.  Hooper,  Prof.  S.  V.  Sanford, 
Prof.  J.  S.  Stewart,  and  Prof.  W.  0.  Payne. 

The  visit  of  Mr.  Taft  was  not  marred  by  a 
single  unpleasant  incident  and  the  friends  of 
the  University  congratulate  her  upon  enter- 
taining so  successfully  one  of  the  first  of 
American  citizens. 


Address  of  Welcome 

by  Acting  Chancellor  Snelling 

We  are  unfortunate  today  in  that  the  Chan- 
cellor of  the  University  is  unable  to  welcome 
in  person  the  distinguished  gentleman,  the 
guest  of  this  occasion. 

I  need  hardly  say  that  though  absent  in 
body,  the  great  heart  that  throbs  in  sympathy 
with  everything  making  for  the  uplift  of  the 
lives  which  this  institution  touches,  is  here. 

I  bring  to  you,  Sir,  greeting  from  our  Chan- 
cellor. 

Inheriting  the  traditions  and  ideals  of  the 
" mother  of  colleges"  and  " mother  of  men," 
the  University  of  Georgia,  oldest  of  the  State 
Universities,  for  more  than  a  hundred  years 
has  ministered  to  the  life  of  Georgia,  so  that 
now  there  would  be  no  history  of  the  state  at 
all,  were  the  University's  part  in  it  wiped  out. 

Today  the  institution  stands  on  the  thresh- 
hold  of  a  new  and  larger  usefulness.  Con- 
scious of  its  own  potentiality  it  is  reaching 
out  to  the  people  and  aspires  to  be,  what  it 
must  be,  the  most  potent  factor  in  their  life 
and  thought. 

We  welcome  this  afternoon  the  splendid 
American  who  honors  us  with  his  presence, 
not  only  because  he  is  soon  to  occupy  the  most 
exalted  position  within  the  gift  of  our  coun- 
try, but  also  because  his  whole  life,  since 
early  manhood,  has  been  dominated   by   the 


spirit  for  which  we  stand;  because  as  the 
product  of  our  foster  mother  Yale,  he  is  the 
highest  expression  of  academic  efficiency,  a 
realization  of  our  ideal  in  love  of  country, 
love  of  humanity,  of  sanity  and  of  service. 

On  behalf  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Judge 
Hamilton  McWhorter  now  presents  him  to 
you. 


Introductory  Speech 

by  Hon.  Hamilton  JXCcWhorter 

Mr.  Chairman,  Gentlemen    of    the    Student 

Body,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

This  is  a  rare  assemblage,  and  this  occasion 
will  forever  remain  distinct  in  the  history  of 
this  venerable  institution  and  the  Classic  City 
of  Athens. 

In  the  past  century  of  its  endeavor  and 
usefulness,  from  this  stage  many  notable 
names  have  been  presented,  but  this  day  and 
this  occasion  is  illumined  and  made  memora- 
ble by  the  presence  of  the  illustrious  son  of 
Yale — our  foster-mother — who  furnished,  in 
its  formative  period,  to  this  institution,  its 
first  President,  Abraham  Baldwin,  ankl  'its 
second  President,  Dr.  Josiah  Meigs — and  from 
its  historic  campus  the  replica  of  its  first 
building,  "Old  College,"  which  still  stands 
as  the  cherished  memorial  and  lingering  token 
of  the  primal  relationship  between  Yale  and 
Georgia. 

Hovering,  therefore,  like  the  silent  atmos- 
phere, about  this  occasion,  is  the  aroma  of 
this  related  association  and  the  glory  of  its 
achievements;  for  if  its  foster-mother  should 
call  for  an  account  of  its  stewardship,  Geor- 
gia, with  pardonable  pride,  could  point  to  its 
own  sons  who  have  left  its  consecrated  walls 
to  adorn  and  add  lustre  to  the  councils  of  the 
state  and  of  the  nation. 


As  the  most  illustrious  son  of  Yale,  we 
salute  him — as  the  chosen  President  of  a  sov- 
ereign people,  the  most  exalted  official  station 
known  to  man,  we  honor  him. 

And,  may  I  be  permitted  to  say  that  his 
peerless  equipment,  attainments,  and  judicial 
training,  presages  an  administration  of  wis- 
dom, justice  and  moderation,  guided  by  a 
statesmanship  as  broad  and  a  patriotism  as 
generous  as  the  circumference  of  our  com- 
mon country — which  in  its  course  and  desti- 
ny, is  as  inseparable  as  the  interwoven  Stars 
and  Stripes  of  our  common  flag,  and,  in  its 
fraternity  and  amity,  as  enduring  as  the  blood 
which  pulsed  and  vitalized  the  veins  of  our 
common,  but  glorious,  ancestry — forming  a 
Union  as  imperishable  as  the  flight  of  time. 

I  beg  to  present  our  foster-mother's  most 
illustrious  son  and  our  country's  next  Presi- 
dent, Honorable  William  Howard  Taft,  who 
will  now  address  you. 


Address  of  Mr  Taft  to  the  Stu- 
dents of  the  University 

Mr.  Vice-Chancellor,    Mr.  Chairman,    Judge 

McWhorter,    Gentlemen    of    the    Student 

Body,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 

The  first  thing  that  comes  into  my  mind  is 
whether,  when  I  was  in  college,  I  looked  as 
young  and  had  as  chubby  cheeks  and  seemed 
to  be  altogether  as  happy  as,  I  was  going  to 
say,  "the  boys"  before  me — but  I  remember 
in  college  we  were  all  "men."  The  truth  is, 
I  have  a  boy  in  the  preparatory  school  who  is 
only  eleven  years  old  and  he  refers  to  the 
"men"  of  his  class,  but  I  suppose  it  is  true 
that  we  looked  as  young  as  you  look  now.  And 
yet,  as  I  look  back  to  that  period  of  my  life,  it 
seems  to  me  that  we  thought  that  Daniel  Web- 
ster did  not  have  any  advantage  of  us  in  mat- 
ters of  statesmanship  or  anything  else.  Cer- 
tainly, when  we  became  seniors,  we  knew  a 
good  deal  more  than  our  fathers  did,  and  it 
took  the  subsequent  year,  after  we  stepped 
down  and  out  of  the  great  dignity  of  that  last 
year  in  college  to  convince  us  that  we  were 
not  altogether  indispensable  to  the  growth 
of  civilization.  At  least  if  the  world  needed 
us,  if  the  world  was  yearning  for  us,  the  world 
was  able  to  conceal  it. 

Yet,  boys,  you  are  enjoying  today  the 
period  that,  after  all  is  said  and  done,  and  as 


you  look  back  upon  it  from  any  stage  in  life, 
will  seem  the  sweetest,  will  seem  the  purest 
in  ideals,  will  seem  the  purest  from  sordid 
cares  and  will  seem  to  you  the  time  when, 
of  all,  you  have  made  the  most  abiding 
and  valued  friendships.  It  is  the  time  when 
you,  each  of  you,  has  a  window  in  his 
bosom  and  each  fellow  can  look  through  that 
window  into  heart  and  soul  that  are  beating 
together  with  the  ideals  of  college  life. 

I  never  come  into  the  presence  of  any  young 
men  like  you,  never  come  under  the  influence 
of  an  academic  atmosphere  without  feeling 
uplifted,  without  feeling  as  if  the  place  where 
I  lived  was  lower  in  point  of  aspiration,  in 
point  of  the  high  morality,  and  the  high  am- 
bition that  ought  to  be  and  are  in  a  college 
atmosphere. 

You  have  a  society  among  your  professors 
and  their  wives,  than  which  there  is  no  more 
refined,  or  cultured,  or  advanced.  They  do  not 
have  much  to  live  on,  they  are  paid  poor  sal- 
aries, and  yet,  perhaps,  that  is  the  explan- 
ation why  they  constitute  the  society  of  plain 
living  and  high  thinking,  but  whatever  it  is, 
it  is  better  for  them  and  is  better  for  the  col- 
lege community  over  which  they  exercise  an 
influence  and  in  which  they  are  the  leaders. 

Now,  I  assume  that  I  am  speaking  to  young 
men  who  are  looking  forward  generally  to 
going  into  the  learned  professions,  that  is  to 
becoming  ministers,  lawyers,  and  physicians. 
I  think  that  during  the  last  twentyfive  or 
thirty  years  the  ministry  has  been  deprived 


by  circumstances  of  some  of  the  material 
that  it  perhaps  took  into  its  ranks  fifty  years 
ago.  There  was  a  time  in  New  England 
when  the  minister  was  the  head  man  of  the 
community,  when  the  congregation  stood  and 
waited  until  he  walked  down  the  aisle  and  out, 
and  when  his  views  were  more  or  less  law. 

At  that  time  the  ministry  attracted  the 
ablest  of  those  who  graduated  from  your  insti- 
tutions of  learning.  That  has  passed  away, 
possibly  with  the  introduction  of  more  mate- 
rial and  lower  ideals  with  respect  to  life.  I 
am  hoping  that  the  time  will  come  when  the 
best  ability  of  those  graduating  from  univer- 
sities shall  again  be  attracted  into  the  minis- 
try, for  that  is  a  great  profession  and  one 
upon  the  ability  and  energy  of  which  depend 
the  welfare  of  our  people. 

Again,  with  reference  to  Medicine.  I  want 
to  encourage  some  of  you  gentlemen  that  are 
doing  what  we  used  to  term  in  the  colloquial 
expression  of  college,  "  wrestling  with  the  tail 
of  the  class. "  I  judge  by  the  applause  that 
there  are  some  here  who  understand  that. 
When  you  have  gone  through  college  and 
have  done  the  best  you  could  to  stay  in,  with 
as  little  work  as  possible,  I  hope  that  you  may 
have  a  very  successful  future,  especially  in 
the  direction  of  the  medical  profession.  That 
is  pretty  hard  on  the  doctors,  I  agree,  but 
what  I  mean  to  stress  is  that  the  study  of 
medicine  more  than  any  other  of  the  profes- 
sions developes  an  enthusiastic  interest  In 
those  who  pursue  it  that  transforms!  them 


from  listless,  idle  students  into  the  hard- 
est workers.  The  enthusiastic  feeling  of  be- 
ing on  the  brink  of  constant  discovery  of 
something  that  pertains  to  the  human  make- 
up that  shall  benefit  mankind,  has  done  more 
to  make  the  profession  of  medicine  the  great- 
est in  this  country  than  anything  else  con- 
nected with  its  practice. 

Now,  as  to  the  profession  of  Law.  For  two 
or  three  years  you  will  have  the  opportunity 
after  you  receive  your  diploma,  or  license,  or 
whatever  you  call  it  in  this  state,  to  look  upon 
the  blank  walls  of  your  office  and  wonder  at 
the  inability  of  the  public  to  understand  a 
man  of  genius  and  his  use  in  the  community. 
Now,  if  while  you  are  entertaining  pity  for 
the  public,  you  devote  your  attention  to  the 
further  study  of  your  profession  as  a  science 
you  will  find  that  in  those  two  or  three  years 
you  are  putting  away  what  will  return  in 
abundance  to  you  afterwards  to  aid  you  when 
you  are  called  upon  for  real  work,  and  when 
the  public  has  discovered  how  useful  you  are. 

Now,  one  word  with  reference  to  the  men 
who  lead  the  classes,  because  those  who  come 
between  are  usually  included  in  the  extremes. 
I  had  a  brother  who  took  the  valedictory  at 
Yale,  and  while  he  was  walking  through  New 
York  one  day  he  met  a  class  chum  of  his  who 
stopped  him.  He  told  him  that  he  wanted  to 
catch  a  train  but  he  said  that  he  was  going 
to  spend  some  time  with  him  anyway,  "  Be- 
cause, "  he  said,  "I  attended  to  one  end  of  the 
class  and  you,  the  other."    In  what  I  want  to 


say  on  this  subject,  I  do  not  want  to  be  misun- 
derstood. I  believe  that  everything  that  is 
worth  doing  at  all  is  worth  doing  well, 
and  that  if  you  are  here  to  study  and 
learn  the  lessons  that  are  put  before  you  and 
the  subjects  that  are  made  part  of  your  cur- 
riculum; the  better  you  learn  them,  the  bet- 
ter for  you.  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  that  is 
all  of  college  life.  On  the  contrary,  if  it  were 
all  of  college  life,  and  if  you  think  it  is  all 
of  college  life,  and  if  you  have  gone  through 
college  finding  it  all  of  college  life,  you  have 
not  lived  as  you  ought  to  have.  I  mean  to 
say  that  the  men  who  make  among  the  first 
ranks  in  their  classes  and  who  devote  them- 
selves to  study  have  the  qualities  that  in  fifty 
cases  out  of  a  hundred  make  for  success  in 
life.  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  there  are 
not  a  number  of  young  boys  in  the  classes 
who  do  not  reach  their  full  sense  of  responsi- 
bility and  who  go  through  and  develop  later, 
but  I  am  speaking  now  of  the  average  student. 
Therefore  I  believe  in  rank  and  I  do  not  be- 
lieve in  abolishing  all  marks  of  rank.  I  think 
it  is  the  proper  means  of  stirring  up  the 
students  to  study.  I  do  not  mean  to  say  that 
there  are  not  other  and  proper  methods  of 
comparison,  matters  of  competition,  as  in  ath- 
letics, in  popularity,  in  literature,  and  in 
power  of  speech.  In  almost  every  subject 
that  comes  in  college  life,  competition  is  a 
good  thing.  But  I  wanted  to  speak  in  par- 
ticular of  the  high-standing  men  and  hold 
that  up  as  perhaps  the  first  object  that  a  man 


ought  to  devote  himself  to.  But  now,  is  that 
all?  By  no  means.  It  is  the  associations  with 
your  fellow  students,  it  is  the  love  that  each 
bears  to  the  other,  it  is  the  epitome  of  life  in 
the  struggle  for  your  college  rewards,  it  is 
the^  development  of  character  at  a  time  when 
character  is  most  formative,  and  when  what 
happens  impresses  itself  most  deeply  on  you 
that  you  gather  from  college  life  like  this. 
And  if  you  do  not  cherish  every  brick  in  the 
sidewalks  of  your  campus  and  every  vista  of 
this  beautiful  country,  then,  as  something  con- 
nected with  the  best  part  of  your  life,  you 
have  not  gotten  out  of  college  what  you  ought 
to  have  gotten  out  of  it  and  what  it  is  possible 
to  get  out  of  it. 

It  is  a  great  pleasure  for  me  to  talk  to  the 
young  men  of  a  college  which  looks  to  Yale 
as  its  foster  mother,  because  I  love  Yale  as 
I  love  my  mother,  and  I  am  sure  from  the 
origin  and  derivation  of  this  University  the 
same  feeling  has  come  down  through  it,  be- 
cause I  know  that  you  number  all,  or  almost 
all,  of  the  prominent  Georgians  who  have  ren- 
dered services  to  their  country  and  state 
among  your  Alumni  and  that  your  great  men 
have  sent  their  sons  here,  and  their  grand- 
sons, and  that  there  is  gathered  about  this  in- 
stitution a  wealth  of  memory  that  in  itself, 
with  the  ideals  formed  here,  is  ever  to  main- 
tain, as  it  always  has  maintained,  the  civiliza- 
tion of  the  Imperial  State  of  Georgia. 


Remarks  of  Mr.  Taft  at  the 
Normal  School 

A  Branch  of  the  Unbersity 

I  have  been  talking  over  at  the  University 
to  the  students,  discussing  their  future  by  a 
division  of  them  into  ministers,  doctors  and 
lawyers,  and  by  some  oversight,  which  was 
very  blameworthy,  I  left  out  altogether  the 
learned  profession  of  the  teacher;  but,  to  my 
gratification,  I  was  told,  after  I  got  into  the 
carriage,  that  I  was  coming  to  the  Normal 
School,  where  that  which  I  had  forgotten  to 
take  up  with  the  student  body  of  the  Univer- 
sity would  be  peculiarly  appropriate. 

There  is  no  higher  profession  than  that  of 
teaching.  It  is  a  profession  that,  when  one 
becomes  interested  and  finds  that  he  has  a 
faculty  for  it,  he  ought  not  to  give  up.  One 
member  of  my  family,  my  youngest  brother, 
began  the  practice  of  the  law,  but  he  found 
that  the  satisfaction  incident  to  the  instruc- 
tion of  youth,  the  winning  of  their  confidence 
and  leading  them  up  to  be  good  men  and 
women  appealed  so  strongly  to  him,  the  fasci- 
nation was  so  great,  that  he  departed  from 
the  law  and  has  gone  into  teaching.  There 
were  four  brothers  of  us  and  a  sister.  He  is 
far  and  away  the  best  member  of  the  family. 
I  think  it  is  because  he  is  engaged  in  the  pro- 
fession that  calls  for  possibly  the  greatest 


sacrifice  and  is  the  greatest  instrument  for 
the  uplifting  of  youth. 

I  have  had  a  good  deal  of  experience  in  the 
matter  of  teachers.  When  we  went  to  the 
Philippines  we  reached  the  conclusion  that 
the  best  thing  to  do  for  the  Filipinos  was  to 
teach  them  English.  They  wanted  to  learn 
English,  and  so  we  sent  for  one  thousand 
American  teachers.  Quite  a  number  got  mar- 
ried on  the  way  out,  so  that  somewhat  inter- 
fered with  our  plans,  but  there  were  enough 
of  them  who  adhered  to  the  profession  to  make 
a  nucleus  about  which  we  have  built  up  the 
educational  system  of  the  Philippines. 

We  have  now  in  the  islands  upwards  of 
seven  thousand  Filipino  teachers,  who  have 
been  taught  by  the  one  thousand  American 
teachers  whom  we  took  out  there;  upon  the 
structure  which  they  make  we  base  the  whole 
hope  that  we  have  of  success  in  the  experi- 
ment that  we  are  making  in  the  discharge  of 
the  trust  which  Providence  has  thrust  upon 
us  with  reference  to  those  people.  As  the 
teachers  shall  be  successful,  so  our  policies 
shall  be  successful.  Hence  it  is  that  in  the 
presence  of  teachers  or  of  those  who  are  mak- 
ing ready  for  that  profession,  I  always  feel 
like  bearing  testimony  to  the  good  that  they 
can  do  in  the  world.  I  know  that  the  female 
teacher  is  not  sufficiently  well  paid.  I  am  not 
sure  that  if  she  had  a  vote,  she  would  get  any 
better  salary.  I  don't  think  she  would,  be- 
cause those  things  are  determined  rather  by 
supply  and  demand;  there  is  a  greater  supply 


of  female  teachers  than  of  male  teachers,  and 
the  salaries  are  accordingly  different. 

It  does  not  seem  just  at  times  when  a 
female  teacher  is  more  capable  than  her  male 
competitor  that  she  does  not  get  the  same 
salary  that  he  receives.  Of  course,  sometimes 
a  man's  family  responsibilities  are  greater 
and  he  needs  more  money,  but  I  believe  the 
tendency  is  going  to  be  that  as  the  opportuni- 
ties increase,  salaries  and,  in  consequence,  the 
comforts  of  life  will  increase.  How  rapid  that 
progress  will  be  I  do  not  know.  I  hope  that  it 
will  be  as  rapid  as  possible,  for  the  benefit  of 
all  of  you,  but  whatever  happens,  you  may 
always  have  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that 
there  is  no  higher  profession,  none  in  which 
self-sacrifice  is  manifested  more  clearly,  and 
none  in  which  more  good  can  be  done  than 
that  of  the  teacher. 

I  congratulate  you  that  you  are  begin- 
ning your  life  in  that  way,  and  I  hope  that 
you  will  continue  the  work  through  life  and 
not  regard  matrimony  as  necessary. 

I  think  that  the  secret  of  most  domestic 
infelicity  is  in  the  thought  that  unless  young 
women  are  married  their  lives  are  not  a  suc- 
cess. As  a  matter  of  fact,  I  think  the  reverse 
is  true.  Look  into  your  own  lives  and  y^ur 
families.  Take  some  aunt  of  yours  who  did 
not  marry — what  a  sweet,  self-sacrificing, 
disinterested  and  lovely  character  she  has 
grown  to  be,  and  what  beneficence  she  has 
spread  over  the  family  circle  in  which  she 
lives;  will  you  tell  me  she  would  have  been 
better  off  if  she  had  been  married?  I  do  not 
believe  it. 


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